Director of Business Development, MCL Group , Head of Analytics, Ukrainian Wind Energy Association

Biography

Kateryna Knysh is in charge of Business Development at the Ukrainian private environmental & development company MCL Group as well as the Head of Analytics at the Ukrainian Wind Energy Association. Over the past 5 years, Kateryna has been working in the Ukrainian wind power sector, reaching working experience in both non-governmental and governmental industry institutions. Kateryna's main accomplishment during her work at the Ukrainian Wind Energy Association is initiating a study on the prospects of offshore wind power in Ukraine. Issue for the development of offshore wind in Ukraine are currently included in the National Energy Strategy until 2050 and are publicly articulated by government authorities. Kateryna was in the first cohort of graduates from the only master's program on International Environmental and Energy Security in Ukraine, taught at the Institute of International Relations of Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv. She also successfully completed the 2021 Energy Community Summer School Program. Prior to joining MCL and the UWEA, Kateryna worked in the Ukrainian Parliament.